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“Do we have a great poet who captures the American spirit, the American story, the American identity?” No. There’s no singular “American identity” or story to capture. The U.S. has…

But they do have authority over the domain registrar, so you’re vulnerable there no matter where you live. I don’t agree with the premise of age verification, but of course a prose…

Good performance, not really a good movie. It was a bit of a letdown after parts I and II, but he was well cast. The writing wasn’t there: didn’t quite stick the landing.

It’d be nice if there were a consumer version of this. I have plenty of old RAM.

Could substitute a tractor tire, maybe? Would certainly smell better long term…

Do you have stats on that? I’m not sure piracy or AI training are really affecting book publishing dramatically. But if you have data, I’d be curious to see it. AI scraper bots are…

Sorry if it sounded like it was only in Debian; that was not my intent. I tried to make clear that the Debian package maintainer and upstream maintainer were one and the same, and …

I think “abject poverty” is probably overstating the case a bit. I do think quality of life is trending downward given the fact that housing, food, gas, medical care costs are all …

There's an enormous imbalance between company and customer that you're ignoring, not to mention the difference between a private person and a company's very public personas who own…

If the far-right parties they're supporting are similar to MAGA in the U.S., what they're doing is taking customer money and funneling it into a political effort to do just what yo…

A right to say something is not the same as the right to say (and do) something without being called out on it. He has the right to do what he’s doing. Other people have the right …

This is not new. AirPods are newish, but this is not new. People have been wearing headphones in public spaces since the Walkman, if not before, in large numbers. You can probably …

The difference is really volume, which is the case with a lot of problems related to AI/LLMs. Humans have always submitted crappy code. LLMs, however, do so at a much faster rate. …

ISTM this developer did people a favor: He’s shown a real-world vulnerability pattern in a way that didn’t do real harm. Odds are he’s not the first to think of this, he absolutely…

No. It’s not. It’s just that we’ve been conditioned to accept that disposable devices are the way of things.

This is wonderful. I grew up watching WKRP and wanted to be Doctor Johnny Fever when I grew up. Managed to work in radio for a few years part-time, but by then DJing was “here’s a …

Um. I grew up watching WKRP. I’m in my mid-50s.

Lord. I pity the managers that are going to be worrying about their jobs sitting in 1:1s with people who are also looking for answers when there really aren’t any to give.

This doesn’t sound like they’ll be weaning off it, though: it’ll be cold turkey. That’s going to let wealth holders pick up more property at depressed prices and drive down wages.

If they’re hosting network services, sure. I wouldn’t put vibe-coded software outside a home network, ever. But it seems low risk if people are just creating their own desktop soft…

“There is no poverty of information.” Quite the opposite, in fact. But there’s a difference between the information being present somewhere, and a reasonable way to get that inform…

It's only "necessary" if one accepts that the current way is the only way. I'm not really sure what the point of encouraging new development is if the end result is "big company sc…

This is amazing. Page says it works on RHEL 14.3, which doesn’t exist. Current RHEL is 10.x, this must’ve been done in a TARDIS.

“I'd like to know how to avoid it.” To paraphrase a popular quote from IBM: “Executives and MBAs can never be held accountable: therefore executives and MBAs must not be allowed to…